Jonas Ådahl
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolJonas Ådahl is a Principal Software Engineer based in Sweden with 17 years of experience building low-level multimedia, desktop integration and cross-platform systems. At Red Hat he leads backend work on projects that touch audio, screen capture and portals, and is an active contributor to high-profile open-source projects like PipeWire, GLFW and GNOME Shell. His background includes mobile browser engineering at Opera and research-grade distributed Android systems, giving him deep expertise across embedded, client and desktop stacks. Jonas combines systems-level C and Wayland/Wayland-backend knowledge with practical API design, and has a track record of stabilizing complex media paths and permissioned desktop interfaces. An alumnus of Chalmers with time as an exchange student in Taiwan, he brings a global, pragmatic approach to solving low-level interoperability challenges.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange student Computer Science Chinese, Exchange student Computer Science Chinese at National Chiao Tung UniversityGymnasieutbildning Nature science - mathematics and computer science, Gymnasieutbildning Nature science - mathematics and computer science at Varbergs GymnasieskolaMaster Computer Science, Master Computer Science at Chalmers University of Technology
Swedish, English, Chinese
Github Skills (27)
application-framework10
back-end-development10
gstreamer10
app-framework10
linux10
c1110
dbus10
c1710
audio10
multimedia10
web-framework10
clutter10
backend10
opengl10
wayland10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal
Nov 2017 - Mar 2022
Desktop integration portal
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:203 reviews, 38 commits, 60 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jonas's commits focus on implementing core backend functionalities within the xdg-desktop-portal project. They added a 'Call' object for simpler method calls, introduced a generic Session API with associated D-Bus interfaces, and developed the camera portal along with functionalities. The contributions involve modifications across various source files, including session management, remote desktop and camera portals.
desktop-integrationflatpaklinuxlinux-desktopsandboxing
GNOME/gnome-shell
Jun 2016 - Dec 2022
Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:178 commits, 1 comment in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jonas primarily focused on modifying the GNOME Shell's codebase related to screen recording and screenshot functionality. Their contributions involved updating code to use new APIs such as `clutter_stage_capture` for capturing screen content and incorporating the composition of multiple capture regions. They also addressed issues related to the headless mode and display scaling factors. The user's work streamlined the screen recording and screenshot processes by improving efficiency and adapting to changes in underlying libraries like Mutter and Cogl.
gnomegnome-shell
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